but I'm unaware of anything he ever did (besides bitch) to improve the situation.
And um, no, I do NOT think everything is "fine and dandy" with the current
system, but I also don't indulge in blanket condemnation of everyone and everything
around me, either, and that, judging by his complete disinterest
in looking beyond the environment he seemingly despised, is apparently what Zappa
was into.
"I don't travel for pleasure...I never leave the house unless I have something to do".
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Yes, I HAVE noticed that the president also sends his kids to a private school,
but unlike Zappa, he is working to better the country, not just
gratuitously shitting on it.
"If i were famous, had the money, and were worried about that effecting my kids in a public setting.. id send them to a private school too".
Yeah, but unlike Zappa, you might have the inclination to help OTHERS in your country
who were not as rich and famous as you, and by the way, since we're
talking education and all, you might want to look at your sentence above and
note that the correct usage is "was", not "were" and that it's "affecting",
not "effecting".
I've followed Zappa's career...I'm even old enough to have seen him,
Prue-Mother's of Invention in a small venue in the late '60s.
My impression of him is of a relentlessly negative person
who seemed congenitally disinclined to a positive outlook.
He even put put down the Sixties, the era with which he is identified and
which made him successful. I doubt he got much joy out of life.
P.S. As for "Americans, for the most part" being "willfully and blissfully ignorant",
You may be speaking for your family and friends, because as you may
have noticed, Americans, "for the most part" voted for President Obama in the last election.
How "ignorant" was that. 
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